Scott Morrison quips at negative comments on latest Facebook post
Scott Morrison’s latest happy snap of life after leaving Australia’s top job has attracted a host of negative comments, but he wasn’t letting this one slide.
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Scott Morrison’s latest happy snap of life after leaving Australia’s top job has attracted a host of negative comments from Aussies apparently still fed up with the former Prime Minister’s performance.
On Saturday, Mr Morrison shared a selfie of himself mowing the lawn at his family’s home in south Sydney, where they returned three weeks ago after vacating Kirribili House.
The family’s Port Hacking home, which features polished floors and a pool, was purchased in July 2009 for $920,000 but is now estimated to be worth $3 million.
It’s been largely empty and untenanted for the last four years, but more recently was generously offered to the couple’s pool cleaner as a safe haven after she lost her home in the floods.
“Back on the tools,” Mr Morrison’s caption read.
The post accumulated over 30,000 likes and thousands of comments. But a couple weren’t too pleased at seeing the former PM plastered across their feed doing household chores.
“Must be hard having to mow your own yard,” one woman sarcastically wrote.
“I can see 2 tools in that photo,” another wrote.
Mr Morrison, who has previously taken a strong stance against social media “trolls”, quickly replied.
“Not really, nice to be outside, chat to people walking past, catch up with the neighbours,” he wrote.
According to a social media commenting policy on Mr Morrison’s official website, posts deemed offensive, including those that contain “hate speech, trolling, or deliberately provocative and do not contribute positively to the debate”, are subject to deletion.
On Monday, only positive comments could be seen underneath Mr Morrison’s picture.
“We must hold social media platforms to account. They’re publishers, not just platforms,” Mr Morrison said on the topic of online harassment in 2021.
“Particularly when they allow people to anonymously go on their platforms and publish their vile rubbish, whether that is to bully a young girl or target people online or to push defamatory statements out against people, and to do so anonymously with impunity.”
Mr Morrison has also called for more transparency in the online sphere when it comes to random comments, believing every user should be identified before they are allowed to share their opinion online.
Earlier last week, Mr Morrison posted a video of himself bowling a strike, commenting on how he was enjoying having more free time to spend with his family.
“Have always enjoyed having a bit of fun going bowling,” he said.
“I remember my Dad taking our family bowling when me and my brother were young. Has been nice to be doing the same back in the Shire with family and friends. Found a bit of form tonight. Thanks to all the regulars at Southgate who came up and said g’day.”
Originally published as Scott Morrison quips at negative comments on latest Facebook post
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